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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 22.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who came from Iowa to coach baseball?
(a) Bob Protexter.
(b) Alex Pryor.
(c) Richard Spooner.
(d) David Kauffman.

2. How did inmates from the Kolyma camps learn that Aleksandr Medvedev had died?
(a) The camp foreman was wearing Medvedev's wool jacket.
(b) They were told by the camp commandant.
(c) They saw him shot.
(d) The camp commandant was wearing Medvedev's wool hat.

3. What event in the Ukraine signaled the end of the old Soviet regime?
(a) Chernobyl.
(b) The release of Sakharov.
(c) Fall of the Berlin Wall.
(d) Metal workers went on strike.

4. Who became president of Czechoslovakia?
(a) Dubcek.
(b) Walesa.
(c) Sakharov.
(d) Vaclav Havel.

5. For what amount of time was the May Day parade in Moscow calm and uneventful?
(a) An hour.
(b) Two hours.
(c) 30 minutes.
(d) 10 minutes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened to the Eveni once they were herded into villages by the Soviets?

2. Who betrayed Aleksandr Medvedev?

3. In what city did the Party cancel the May Day parade in 1990?

4. What baseball player was the hero of Vadim Kilakov, the Spooner's catcher at Mendeleyev?

5. How did the Baltic republics win their independence?

(see the answer key)

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